"I've just been a comic book fan all my life, and I started looking for comics of characters who had Down syndrome when we found out my son had Down syndrome," Reece, of Wichita, Kansas, told KWCH-TV.

"I think it's just important for anybody to see characters like them represented because they're able to see that they're included just like everybody else … specifically for people with Down syndrome, they can be anything they want to be," Reece added.

Reece teamed with illustrator Kelly Williams to make the comic book with the Down syndrome superhero Metaphase for just family and friends, but when a publisher heard about it, the book was developed about a father-son superhero team, KWCH-TV wrote.